出版社：Grupo de Pesquisa Metodologias em Ensino e Aprendizagem em Ciências
摘要：The aim of this study was to verify aspects related to telehealth and telemedicine in patients with diabetes mellitus. It is a bibliometric analysis, carried out in July 2021, in the scientific databases PUBMED and BIREME. The descriptors “telemedicine”, “telehealth” and “diabetes” were used, and studies published in the last 10 years were selected. The analysis of the number of publications preceded the analysis of the most discussed themes and sub-themes. The combination “telehealth AND diabetes” resulted in a total of 615 articles in the Pubmed database and 1,673 in the BIREME database. The combination “telemedicine AND diabetes” resulted in 1,897 articles in the PUBMED database and 2,396 articles in BIREME. The most discussed topics in publications in 2011 were telemedicine, self-monitoring of blood glucose, diabetic retinopathy and self-care. In 2020 and 2021, the most discussed sub-themes were telemedicine, self-care, retinopathy, mobile apps and self-monitoring of blood glucose, in addition to the terms “coronavirus infection”, “viral pneumonia”, “pandemics” and “COVID-19”. It is concluded that telemedicine and telehealth themes have been shown to be of increasing relevance to the scientific community regarding the monitoring of patients with diabetes mellitus. Future studies on the behavior of articles over time are suggested in order to analyze whether the evidence and quality of the studies has accompanied the quantitative growth.
